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500+ Journalists Agree: These Are the Worst PR Tactics in 2019

Hubspot

Spend any amount of time searching the hashtag #PRFail on Twitter and you won't struggle to find journalists lamenting about all of the bad PR pitches they received this week. The relationship between journalists and PR professionals is complicated. A message to all PR practitioners: stop doing this. Cold calling.

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Broadcast Media Insights: Interview With Sarah Smith, Booking Producer at Yahoo Finance

Walker Sands

For the first installment of our media insights blog series, I connected with Sarah Smith , a booking producer for Yahoo Finance , to discuss strategies for pitching booking producers and how PR professionals can foster their media relationships. The relationships between us and PR should always be reciprocal.

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The salesmanship of influencer marketing

Biznology

If you’re doing it right, there’s no difference between being a top salesman and a top PR man. What works in high-end sales works in high-end PR. Neither sales nor PR, especially influencer marketing, which is really influencer PR, can ever afford to be fire-and-forget. Like this post?

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Why Inbound Marketing Solutions Are Integral To Your Success

Stevens & Tate

Inbound marketing is a strategy that focuses on attracting customers using valuable content instead of traditional advertising methods (such as cold calling). Outbound methods include cold calling, TV commercials, and direct mail. Social Media Marketing. billion people using social media as of this year.

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Why Every CEO Should Have a Social Media Presence

Onalytica B2B

This social media trend coupled with millennials being deemed the “future” would suggest that every professional looking to target this group should be on social media; a “no brainer”- right? Of the F500 CEOs, not one has a presence on all 6 major social media platforms. WHY SHOULD I BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

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The Cost Effective Benefits of Inbound Marketing

SmartBug Media

With outbound marketing, the company is starting the conversation—think cold calls, trade shows, TV ads, billboards, paid advertisements, and so on. But I have good news to share: That’s exactly what the world of inbound marketing is all about. Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing. The Benefits of Inbound Marketing.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Cold Calling Tips for the complex sale

markempa

« Better lead management leads to bigger marketing budgets | Main | Paper Direct Mail is Not Dead » Cold Calling Tips for the complex sale When used correctly, the phone is a powerful way to start and develop relationships. Peter Davidson at the BeConnected blog pointed me to Kevin Stirtzs post on cold calling.